Saturday, 22 July 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The bike squad of the Transport department has penalised 7,497 vehicles in about three months since its inception in the State. The bike squad is working quite efficiently to ensure traffic enforcement considering which the department will work on upgrading them soon, said the regional transport officer (enforcement) Shailesh Tiwari.
He said that a total of 30 bike squads were flagged off from the transport commissioner’s office in Dehradun in April. The squads have been deployed in accident-prone districts to take proper action under traffic enforcement to ensure road safety. They are also being used to raise awareness about traffic rules and make people more sensitise toward them, said Tiwari. He said that there are 15 bike squads under the Dehradun division of which four each are working in Dehradun, Haridwar and Rishikesh, two in Roorkee and one in Vikasnagar. He said that these squads are taking action against violations like riding without helmets, tripling in two-wheelers, not using seatbelts in four-wheelers, wrong parking and causing traffic jams among others.
The squads are working from April 19 in the division and they have issued 2,775 challans in Haridwar, 1,609 in Rishikesh, 1,600 in Dehradun, 1,103 in Roorkee and 410 in Vikasnagar, added RTO.
